Despicable

Yes, the Sun is great at those kinds of headlines. At least that one is relatively harmless. I've done lots worse in the headlines I used to write. (One of my all time faves was the day they were announcing the nominees for the Academy Awards and we put this on the screen in promoting the story: "They'd love to be an Oscar Admired winner." Then there was the day Wayne Gretzky landed with the Kings, as he tried on his new uniform. And the caption read, "He may be going to L.A. but he has a New Jersey!" I'm surprised I wasn't ridden out of town on a rail for that one but I thought it was hilarious...) 

But the Fox one wasn't amusing or lighthearted. It was outrageous. There is no way I would ever have put that up on the screen, even if my job was threatened. It was so far over the line, you can't see the line anymore.  

Even when tRump hears the cell door slam behind him, he won't shut up. Imagine occupying an adjoining cell and having to listen to all the whining and blaming everyone else but himself...the actual criminal who broke all these laws.

Remember all those vampire 'B' movies in the '60s  and 70s? Apparently there is only one way to kill a vampire.

It boggles the mind to think back to all the horrific BS that tRump's lying mouth has been swilling across Planet Earth for years.

If you sense Canada's politics heading toward the guardrails, it's not hard to see a direct line from tRump's big mouth to easily-influenced people among us who happily swallow his BS.

Has Rupert Murdoch learned anything from losing $3/4 Billion? Apparently not. Rick Wilson coined the most accurate statement about the former guy... everything tRump touches dies.

 

Last edited by Dial Twister (June 14, 2023 9:24 pm)

re: Just When You Think Fox News Could Not Get Any Lower...

@unclefester .. 
we trust you did post your comments on Fox's website about this? .. 

Last edited by g121 (June 15, 2023 8:19 am)

The more I think about that idiotic chyron, the more convinced I become that it was created as an internal joke, never meant to go on air. That may explain why it was only up for 27 secs. Bad as Fox is, I find it hard to believe even they would stoop that far on purpose.   

Something not quite as egregious but equally stupid happened on City TV many years ago. SOWNY member CityPulse News 15, who was there at the time, recalled how a rather risqué promo wound up on air when it was just shot as a joke and meant only for those inside the station - and maybe the Christmas tape. As it turned out, the audience watching the news that night got quite an eyeful. 

His story from a 2018 post is here. 

Wow. I'm not making excuses for them. I have no idea where you got that idea. Re-read my original posts. To quote myself:

"...they should issue an apology and possibly fire the people responsible...it's a new low for this network...As a person who's worked in news all my life and even did on-air graphics at a Toronto TV station for 10 years, this is simply unbelievable." 

"The Fox [chyron] wasn't amusing or lighthearted. It was outrageous. There is no way I would ever have put that up on the screen, even if my job was threatened. It was so far over the line, you can't see the line anymore."

I know you like our sometimes-spirited arguments, but there's no love in there for them at all and I certainly was not making excuses for what they did. It was, in a word, unforgiveable.

I suggested it might have been an internal accident, a joke that accidentally hit air, only because I did that job for a decade and know how people like to fool around behind the scenes. The fact of its brief appearance on screen lends at least some credence to that possibility. We made up some silly stuff on my graphics machine, too, over the years. 

But I can assure you anything we did was erased well before airtime to prevent it from ever seeing the light of day by accident. If this was deliberate, then as The Thing used to say in the X-Men comics, "It's clobberin' time!"

paterson1 wrote:

Very odd if it were an accident or just the crew having some fun, that the graphic would run again later in the evening when the program it appeared on was repeated.  This was reported on by AP.  So it was either intentional or Fox has some pretty incompetent people on staff to let this appear twice. 

No idea where I got the idea you were making excuses for Fox??  Re-read your post at 10:22 this morning please...pretty obvious.

The repeat, which I didn't see, (in fact, I didn't see any of it, as I don't watch Fox News and certainly not when Trump is blathering on) is easily explainable - they taped it that way and thus when it was rerun, it was there again. But they should have and could have fixed it, nonetheless. 

I'm guessing you've never been in a TV control room, where it's often chaos during a live hit. You've got the director setting up the next shot or looking at the line-up, the producer talking to everyone including the talent, the technical director on the switcher, the production assistant counting down the time and checking the script, and the sound guy in the next room making sure the mics are all working for the next segment and remote.

Is it possible someone accidentally put up that key in all that turmoil and left it there for a few seconds without knowing it? Yep. I've seen it happen. You'd be surprised how often people aren't looking at the monitor because they're busy setting up something else - especially on what is essentially a static camera shot. I'm not saying that's what was happening, only that it has. 

I can see no other reason for Fox to do something so incredibly ridiculous or reckless, because as odious as the network is, I can't imagine that even they would go this far. But if they did do it on purpose, there isn't enough condemnation they can be given. So having been in that chair, there's at least some part of me that hopes there's enough professionalism in the crews who work there (as opposed to the on-air talent), that it could have simply been an error. 

Either way, accident or purposeful, they deserve all the opprobrium they get. It was one of the worst and most irresponsible things I've ever seen anyone do in broadcasting. I can't make it any clearer than that.  

"I am guessing you've never been in a TV control room.."  I was employed at three companies that had television in addition to radio and was in TV control during productions various times. One station I produced our radio promos for TV.  Also in college I directed a number of "live" productions over the three years and was in both the studio control room and at the remote mobile quite often, as switcher or director. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-parts-ways-with-producer-responsible-for-wannabe-dictator-chyron

Fox fired the person responsible.  He was a veteran Tucker Carlson producer, who (of course) Tucker defends in this story.